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JOURNAL 

JAMEbTOWNNY 



YEAR BOOK, 

A. L. A. 

1898. 



Issued from the Headquarters of the Local Committee. 
Jamestown. New York. 



THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. 



TWENTIETH ANNUAL 
CONFERENCE. 



LAKEWOOD-ON-CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK, 
JULY 2-11, 1898. 



COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY THE 
LOCAL COMMITTEE. 




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INT EXCH ANGil 



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The best reading for the largest 
number at the smallest cost. 



Chautauqua in Cegenb. 



" Those old credulities, to Nature dear. 
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stalk 
Of History? " — Wordsworth. 

America — fairest inheritance from Manitou — thy every mountain, 
cascade, lake, and forest may sooner lack its accompaniment of mist and 
shadow and rainbow, than it may miss that other touch of mystery be- 
queathed to it in Legend. 

In the cloud-region of Chautauqua a hundred dreamy traditions 
have their homes. The opal lake seems to possess all the mystic powers 
of the gem it resembles. A siren's music lurks in its very name. From 
its earliest form of Tclwdakoiu to Chataconit, thence Chadakoin and Shata- 
coin. slipping by easy transition into Jadaxque, Jadaqua, Chaud-dauk-wa. 
we reach Chataughque. then Chautauque. and finally rest from further evo- 
lution in the rhythmically perfect amphiambus. Chautauqua. What won- 
der that various meanings have attached themselves to a name upon 
whose tuneful syllables so many changes have been rung! 

On a belated boat slowly pushing and feeling its way homeward 
through banks of thick mist, how ready is he who dreams upon the de- 
serted deck to acquiesce in the belief that Chautauqua means "a foggy 
place ! " Or. inhaling life with every breath of its delicious air on a clear 
day in our perfect summer, who will venture to say that " high up " and 
"Chautauqua" are not synonyms? But look upon the map! There 
lies the shape of a great purse drawn together to hold its riches. — "a 
bag tied in the middle," said the forest child to whom it was first a her- 
itage, or perhaps, "two moccasins fastened together." 

Another and sweeter legend tells of a beautiful Seneca maiden, who 
having eaten of a root growing upon the banks of the lake suffered from 
tormenting thirst. To relieve it she stooped to drink of the cool water 
and disappeared forever. So the lake was called Jadaqua, or " the place 
of easy death." 



" Then was gained the treacherous brink, 
Stooped 0-wa~na down to drink: 
Then the waters, calm before, 
Waking, burst upon the shore: 
And the maid was seen no more. 
Azure glass I in emeralds framed, 
Since that hour Ja-da-qua named. 
Or ' the place of easy death,' 
When I pant with failing breath. 
1 will eat the root that grows 
On thy banks, and find repose 
With the loveliest of our daughters 
In thy blue engulfing waters." 

Another Seneca tradition relates that an abundance of fish of a 
certain kind appeared in Lake Erie as a consequence of the accidental 
transferring to its waters of a fish peculiar to Chautauqua Lake. Hence. 
Jah-dah-gwah. or Chautauqua, "fish lake" — and who so bold to con- 
tradict the oracle in this case? 

Chautauqua! — beautiful in thy "sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof," 
favored of Manitou and by his good spirits watched and tended, while 
legends have faded and lost themselves in thy vanishing mists, and the 
lips that told them have year by year passed into silence, thou hast 
smiled and dimpled in the sunshine, and thy lisping waves still whisper 
" airy nothings " whose illusive meanings human language lacks power 
to express. Mary R. Willard. 





A BAY ROAD. 




(£bautaiiqua in I^istory. 



" Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd 
Please daily, and whose novehy survives 
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years."— Cowper. 

" 1 shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having 
descended below the dignity of history."— Ma caiilay. 



Along " the ridge " which separates the waters which fall into Lake 
Erie from those which flow southward into the Gulf of Mexico, lies the 
fair country which has received its euphonic name. Chautauqua, from 
the beautiful lake which it encloses. 

Few have been the circling waves set in motion by important events 
in American history, that have not in their widening and receding left a 
trace upon the history of this quiet bit of upland. When white men first 
entered this region it was covered with unbroken forests, but its aborigi- 
nal history is written in earth-works and ruins of fortifications, in crum- 
bling remains in burial places, and in rude implements of war and of 
peace which have been turned up by plow or spade. 

Colonial records tell us that "so far as the question of dominion 
relates to Chautauqua Lake and the out-lying region, there is the strong- 
est reason for believing that it rightfully belonged to the French, sub- 



ject to the superior claims of the Indians: for La Salle who was its un- 
doubted discoverer about 1681, gave the first knowledge of its existence 
to Europeans." After this adventurous explorer, sixty-seven years later 
came De Celoron, in whose honor, though somewhat tardily, has been 
named one of the popular pleasure resorts on the lake near whose shore 
he kindled the first camp-fire. The French held this region under the 
rule established by their great chain of forts which extended along the 
St. Lawrence River and Great Lakes and down the Ohio and Mississippi 
Rivers; and there is no doubt that the famous old Portage Road was 
laid under the direction of Marquis Du Quesne, governor general of 
Canada during the struggle between French and English for supremacy 
in the New World. 

This historic highway connected the head-waters of Chautauqua 
Lake with a point near Barcelona on Lake Erie, and thus established un- 
broken communication between Canada and Louisiana. The original 
track, and remains of the log bridges were plainly to be seen as late as 
the year 1817. and traces of the old road remain to this day. It was cut 
twenty years before the battle of Lexington "and was the first work 
performed by civilized hands within the limits of Chautauqua County of 
which we are cognizant." 

The validity of the French claim to the region which includes Chau 
tauqua County is now only a subject of interesting speculation and of 
no practical importance, for by the treaty of peace which followed the 
fall of Quebec, France ceded to England all her northern possessions in 
America. The land titles of the state of New York, known as the Hol- 
land Purchase, which includes the "County of Chautauqua." may be 
said to be derived from a patent granted by James I., King of England, 
to the Plymouth Company in 1620. Massachusetts, by virtue of the 
grant to the Plymouth Company, long claimed title to New York, but 
commissioners appointed to carry on negotiations in the matter settled 
the difficulties by compromise. 

In colonial days the Chautauqua region was the " paradise of hunt- 
ers." The brooks were full of trout. Wild animals — the wolf, panther, 
wild-cat. martin, black bear and deer abounded. The last wolf was 
killed in 1841. We read that "it was not destroyed until after being 
hunted thirty-one days. After the skin was stuffed and mounted, the 
people, particularly the school-children, were given an opportunity to 
see it. It was carried on a sleigh through several towns." 




With the opening of the Erie 
Canal, 1825. the pioneer history of 
Chautauqua County may be said 
to close. On the breezy lake now 
so thickly sprinkled with pleasure 
craft, steam navigation began in 
1828, when the "Chautauqua" 
made her first trip. Chautauqua 
Lake was then the highest navi- 
gable body of water on the globe. 
The first railroad in the county was 
the New York and Erie, com- 
pleted to Dunkirk and opened with 
great rejoicing in 1851. President 
Filmore and Daniel Webster were 
among the distinguished guests 
who witnessed this ceremony. 

Lighthouses were erected in the harbors of Dunkirk, Silver Creek 
and Portland in the years 1827-'8 and '9 successively. The last was 
lighted by natural gas, from a spring in the vicinity. The picturesque 
ruin of this old beacon still attracts the pleasure seeker to the quiet little 
fishing station at Barcelona. 

The busy little city of Jamestown, spread out upon the side hills and 
in the valley through which winds the silvery outlet of Chautauqua Lake, 
received its name from its founder, Judge James Prendergast. In this 
first stage of its journey to the sea, the stream makes a hurried little plunge 
and so it happened that the settlement was first known as "The Rapids." 
The exceptional growth and progress of Jamestown is due not only to the 
industry and enterprise of its citizens, but also to the foresight and good 
judgment of its founders. Their choice of a location was mainly in- 
fluenced by the facilities for manufacturing offered by the excellent 
water-power, and subsequent events fully justified their choice. It was 
first incorporated as a village in 1827, being the first village in the county 
to be incorporated. It become a city in 1886. 

In times of war as well as of peace, Chautauqua has ever held a 
proud place in the nation's esteem. Since the days of colonial conflict, 
when the dauntless pioneer defended with his unaided arm his solitary 
cabin from savage onslaught, to this present time of eager sacrifice in 





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A CHAUTAUQUA SENTINEL. 



defence of national honor, no demand upon the courage of her citizens 
has ever been too large or too exacting, and no call to patriot arms has 
sounded without enthusiastic response. 

Smiling and prosperous in her sunny altitude lies Chautauqua, and 
bright on history's page are the records of the deeds of her people 
Some have led wisely and well; many have followed faithfully and well; 
and many more, for thus the world goes, have passed from uneventful 
lives to forgotten graves. It only remains for loyal love to pray 
Heaven's continued blessing upon this little spot of earth's garden now 
and always so richly blessed by Nature and by Nature's God 

Mary R. Willard 




KENT HOUSE, LAKEWCOD — FROM THE PIER. 



Cl|e Cl^autauqua CTsscmbly. 



The Chautauqua Assembly held its first session in August. 1874, at- 
what was then known as Fair Point, on Chautauqua Lake. Since that 
time annual sessions have been held, and in adjustment to the growing 
demands of its constituency, the original plans and methods have been 
gradually extended and developed until they now include a complete 
system of summer instruction, comprising twelve different schools in 
which about one hundred courses are offered under instructors from 
leading universities, colleges and secondary schools. 

At the same time with the more specifically educational work there 
has grown up what is known at Chautauqua as The General Program — 
a carefully arranged series of lectures on the University Extension plan, 
popular addresses, readings, entertainments, concerts, etc., in great 
variety. The popular side of the work attracts large numbers, and fur- 
nishes a means of support for the higher educational work which can- 
not, in many cases at least, be expected to pay its own way. 

In 1878 a plan was proposed to insure the continuity of Chautau- 
qua's influence throughout the year. It was felt by those in charge of 
the institution, that there was great loss from the lack of connection be- 
tween summer study and winter reading. In order, therefore, to corre- 
late the intellectual life of those who frequented Chautauqua, the home 
reading plan, known as The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, 
was announced. It met with instant response, not only from those who 
learned of it at Chautauqua, but from thousands in all parts of the 
country. It immediately supplied a definite means for realizing a vague, 
widespread ambition among people who had either neglected or failed to 
secure early opportunities for education and personal culture. 

The reading circle plan, now imitated so widely, not only in this 
country, but in England. South Africa, Australia, Japan, and elsewhere, 
quickly became general, and has had a marked influence upon the social 
and intellectual life of the United States. It came at a time when liter- 
ary clubs were few in number, and before the women's club movement 
had gained any considerable momentum. In estimating, therefore, the 
influence of Chautauqua, it is necessary to take into accotant not only 



those persons directly connected with the home reading circle, but also 
the many other reading clubs and independent groups which have grown 
out of it. 

Chautauqua has also for fifteen years conducted work by corres- 
pondence under the supervision of college professors, a plan which has 
now been adopted by The University of Chicago, The University of 
West Virginia, and a number of other institutions. 

Chautauqua as a summer educational center has many interesting 
and unique features. It is not only a great summer school, with from 
1 ,500 to 1 ,800 students doing regular systematic work, but it is also a large 
community, organized to afford a rational, wholesome, genuinely inter- 
esting social life. Social molds must be provided for the fluid human- 
ity that comes in for the brief season of six or eight weeks. A system 
of clubs furnishes the means for promptly effecting congenial social 
groupings of many kinds, so that a season at Chautauqua means some- 
thing more than "resorting" to a conventional summer outing place. 
The fact that all public exercises are arranged by a central committee 
and are free to all citizens who have paid their taxes at the city gates, 
makes possible a community spirit which is as interesting as it is un- 
usual in places where people gather for so short a period. 

The possibilities of Chautauqua are by no means realized. There 
are many obvious improvements which are to be made as quickly as re- 
sources are available for the purpose; but in what has been accomplished 
and what exists to-day there is enough to awaken the sympathy and 
command the respect of thoughtful people. Those who study the funda- 
mental principles of the institution cannot content themselves with mere 
jocose comment upon some of the surface appearances which easily 
lend themselves to such treatment. 

Chautauqua looks forward with interest and satisfaction to the meet- 
ing of the American Librarians with whom it has so many interests in 
common. Chautauqua feels that it has had some part at least in bring- 
ing about that change in public opinion which no longer regards the 
library as a passive repository of human knowledge but as an active in- 
itiative force in our national life. 

George E. Vincent. 




Ctrounb 



lake. 



The visitor to the 
Chautauqua region 
will find the places of 
natural beauty well- 
known to the dwell- 
ers in its cities and 
towns, by whom they are o;;e;i visited, for Chautauquans enjoy to the 
full the blessings of nature which are at their very doors. While there 
may be stray and picturesque corners for the sojourner to discover, he 
will find easy and ready access to enough well-known places of interest 
to fill the spare hours of a fortnight. It is in large part owing to the fact 
that Chautauquans did not wait for visitors to reveal the fair beauty of 
the region that no fictitious value has come to be placed upon the privi- 
lege of enjoying its pleasures, and the visitor will find an absence of the 
mercenary atmosphere that pervades many resorts. 

CHAUTAUQUA — The place which more than any other has made 
the Chautauqua region famous is Chautauqua itself, the seat of the 
Chautauqua Assembly, the home of the Chautauqua Literary and Sci- 
entific Circle and the parent of the many Chautauquas scattered through- 
out the country. The grounds lie 12 miles up the lake from Lakewood. 
Programs giving the lectures, entertainments and events of each day 
will be supplied at the conference. 

On the way to Chautauqua, which is an hour's ride by boat from 
Lakewood, many quiet family hotels and private summer homes are 
passed and at Bemus Point, which by the way, every A. L. A. mem- 
ber should remember is famous for fish dinners, the steamer runs 
through the Narrows, where an old style rope ferry is operated. By 
utilizing this primitive mode of navigation, a 20 mile cycle run or car- 
riage drive can be taken beginning and ending at Lakewood and en- 
circling the lower half of the lake. Just above Bemus Point the steamer 



passes Long Point, a finger of land of curious formation. The point is 
private property and is given choice care. 

If the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds are the destination, the ride 
is soon over and the visitor is in the park. There is so much to see here 
and so much to do that the members of the Association are referred to 
the special printed matter relative to the place, which can be obtained at 
Lakewood. 

Opposite Chautauqua lies Point Chautauqua, a favorite society re- 
sort with a large hotel and many cottages. A few miles above is Woog- 
lin with a hotel giving its patrons the pleasures of club life: and a mile or 
two more and Mayville, county seat and head of the lake, is reached. 

Belleview. Griffith's Point and Greenhurst are quiet resorts a short 
distance apart, and opposite Lakewood near the lower end of the lake. 
The latter place possesses one of the most perfectly appointed hotels on 
the lake and between it and Jamestown, five miles away, lies an ideal 
ride over the Century Cycle Club's path. The Chadakoin Club has 
its boat house at Greenhurst. 

CELORON — The "Inland Coney Island." is in sight from Lake- 
wood at the lower end of the lake. In magnitude this pleasure park is 
scarcely exceeded in the land and its successful existence is a matter of 
wonder to every visitor. Open air band concerts afternoon and evening, 
a beautiful summer theater, electric fountains, water toboggans, aerial 
railway. Phoenix wheel, a zoo, and every amusement device known to 
man are offered for entertainment. 

Jamestown, three miles away, can be reached from Celoron by 
trolley, or the steamers running through the tortuous Chadakoin which 
flows toward every point of the compass. 




LAKEWOOD. 






A Chautauqua Shipwreck— " Going/ " 



0iitiiU35 for ®^^ I^oun 



The entire lake region abounds in picturesque roads and bypaths 
and the visitor awheel, afloat or afoot cannot go amiss in his search for 
scenic beauty. 

There are many interesting places easily accessible from Lakewood 
which well repay the time spent in visiting them. 

Waldmere Park — A moment's walk from the hotel lies Waldmere 
Park, overlooking Sherman Bay, a vista of tall trees and summer homes 
with a stretch of water beyond. 

Lovers' Lane — Chautauqua Lake has its Lovers' Lane and it can be 
visited from Lakewood at the expense of a few hours. Ten minutes by 
steam ferry to Greenhurst and a half mile walk take one past an old 
mill and along a winding 
stream on a hillside, 
the quiet scenery of 
which will long be re- 
membered. No one who 
takes such a ramble as 
this should fail to climb 
to the top of some one 
of the high hills which 



" Gone! ' 



everywhere surround the lake. The view from the height will well re- 
pay the exertion. 

Waterlilies — Goose creek enters the lake two miles above Lakewood 
and the labor of propelling a skiff to the wild growth of water vegetation 
which surrounds the stream will be rewarded by the opportunity to 
bring back a huge bunch of beautiful, white waterlilies. 

Panama Rocks — These rocks are reached by a drive of 10 miles 
through the midst of the Chautauqua farming region. This City 
of Rocks, silent, impressive and eloquent in massiveness, occupies an 
area of about six acres, the primeval forest protecting it, and covered, 
owing to the shade, with the most beautiful, velvet moss and dif- 
ferent varieties of fragrant ferns. One cannot explain such a luxurant 
growth of forest trees with so little soil. Large pines and birches cover 
the summits of isolated masses of rocks whose surfaces are nearly bare, 
and with perpendicular sides fully forty feet high. Dinner can be ob- 
tained at the Rocks. 

Hog's Back — A trip to Hog's Back, another place of rugged scenery, 
takes the visitor by boat to Mayville, and thence a short drive over the 
hills. On this drive the water shed of the Chautauqua region is passed, 
and on its crest stands the proverbial barn, the water from the eaves of 
one side reaching the Gulf of Mexico, and from the other the Gulf of St. 
Lawrence. These are the highlands of Chautauqua and from their 
highest point Lake Chautauqua is visible 200 feet below in one direction 
while Lake Erie's expanse gleams 1,100 feet nearer sea level in the 
other. 

Several of the largest manufactories of Jamestown will be opened 
to visiting librarians. These include the Jamestown Worsted Mills, Hall 
& Co., owners, Wm. Broadhead & Sons' Worsted Mills, 

the Jamestown Cotton 
Mills, and 
the works 
of the Fen- 
ton Metal- 
lic Mfg. Co. 
These man- 
ufactories 
are all very 
extensive. 




Cl]c 3*^1^^- Pl■^^^^rgast ^vcc library. 



}i\^ It is a great blessing to the people of 

1^. "J the city of Jamestown that it was once 

; l^f the home of James Prendergast; that 

Wi ^9h '' he was liberally educated, generous, 

philanthropic, and that a far-sighted 
and practical common sense accom- 
^•k / panied and directed his philanthropy. 

^^^^^[W'i History has seldom, if ever, record- 

/^^^^^Ul "~ ed another instance of a man only 

^^^^^^^K^ thirty-one years of age. just fairly 

' '■• reached the full vigor of physical and 

intellectual manhood.in perfect health, 
business and professional duties call- 
ing constantly upon him, filled with a 
JAMES PRENDERGAST. commendable ambition, with every 

prospect of a long, useful and brilliantly successful future, stopping to 
consider that he might die, and so considering, to make such complete 
and judicious provisions for the disposition of his property in the event of 
his death — provisions that would bring great and lasting benefits to all 
the people of the city that was his home. Such provisions have usually 
come from those who feel that they are nearing the end of life. 

James, the son of Alexander T. and Mary A. Prendergast, was born 
June 18. 1848. and died December 21, 1879, leaving his father and mother 
as the only surviving members of the family. At the time of his death 
he was the owner of the business block known as the Prendergast 
Building, which was erected by him in the year 1875, at the corner of 
Main and West Third streets in the city of Jamestown. Soon after the 
death of James there were found among his papers certain memoranda 
indicating that he had commenced the making of a will by which he 
would devote the Prendergast Building to the establishing and maintain- 
ing of a free public circulating and reference library for the city. Imme- 
diately upon the discovery of these memoranda the father determined to 
carry out the wishes of his son as therein expressed, and under the 
directions of himself and Mrs. Prendergast a charter was prepared and 



at the earliest possible date submitted to the Legislature. On the 29th 
day of January. 1880. the act incorporating the ■■James Prendergast 
Library Association of Jamestown. New York," was signed by Governor 
Cornell, and appears as Chapter 3 of the laws of 1880. This act creates 
a board of seven trustees who serve during life, and any vacancies oc- 
curring upon the board are filled by the vote of the remaining members. 

On the 30th day of January. 1880, the day following the signing of 
the act of mcorporation by Governor Cornell, Mr. and Mrs. Prendergast 
conveyed the Prendergast Building to the newly incorporated Library 
Association. 

Alexander T. Prendergast died on the 1st day of August, 1885. but 
before his death had secured and conveyed to the Library Association 
the site of the present James Prendergast Free Library. Mr. Prender- 
gast, at his death, left practically all of his large estate to his widow, en- 
trusting her with the carrying out of their plans. The income from the 
Prendergast Building was invested by the trustees, as received, in inter- 
est bearing securities, and in 1889, amounted to about $35,000. To 
this amount Mrs. Prendergast added the sum of $30,000, thus placing 
at the disposal of the board of trustees $65,000 in cash, and work was 
immediately commenced on plans for a library building upon the lot al- 
ready secured. These plans were prepared under the personal direction 
and supervision of Mrs. Prendergast. The plans were not only com- 
pleted but the contract was let for the erection of the building pursuant 
to such plans, and the work upon the building was well under way at 
the time of Mrs. Prendergast's death, which occurred on the 22nd day 
of December, 1889. The library building, including an art gallery, 
which is fire proof, was completed, the books and paintings purchased, 
placed therein, and opened to the public upon the 1st day of December, 
1891, since which time it has been constantly in use by the people of 
Jamestown. There are at present in the circulating department of the 
library 8,800 volumes, in the reference department 4.700 volumes, and in 
the art gallery many valuable paintings by some of the most noted 
masters. 

The land upon which the library building is situated, and which is 
owned by the Library Association, comprises an entire square, being 
250 feet by 256 feet. The library is supported entirely by endowment, 
the rents from the Prendergast Building being the only source of income. 

Eleazer Green. 



(Lbc City of 3^'"25tott?n. 



Picturesquely situated on rounded hills, 1 ,400 feet above tidewater, 
is one of the most thriving of the smaller cities of the Empire State. The 
city is laid out without great formality, and of its 100 miles of streets 
many are adorned by handsome shade frees. Five thousand persons 
are employed in its mills and factories, and the output annually is valued 
at about $8,000,000. The people are enterprising, warm hearted, and 
maintain many organizations for culture and social amusements. James- 
town has a population of 25.000 and has grown rapidly within the past 
few years. It has all modern requirements, such as an extensive sewer- 
age system, an electric light plant of its own covering every street, be- 
sides a large private plant, a fine new city hall, a splendid water supply 
coming from a pure, cold, underground river, a handsome new opera 
house, best banking facilides. a great variety of manufactories, an ad- 
mirable fire department, numerous churches, unexcelled public schools 
with free text books, an extensive and perfect street railway, two daily 
newspapers, a semi-weekly and several weeklies, a fleet of fine steamers 
and good hotels. It has an admirable free circulating library. Its build- 
ings speak for themselves. Jamestown is a typical New York city of 
its class. 

Jamestown is the most important station on the Erie railroad be- 
tween Elmira and Chicago It is also on a branch line to Buffalo. The 
D., A. V. & P. railroad connects with the Vanderbilt system at Dunkirk, 
and the Jamestown & Lake Erie skirts one shore of the lake with im- 
portant connections at its terminals. The lake is visited by 150,000 
tourists annually. 

The place was founded by James Prendergast. from whom it took 
its name, in 1815. It was incorporated as a city in 1886. The wood- 
working industry found an early foothold here, and it has developed 
into a score of furniture factories. The textile industry is housed in huge 
factories giving employment to thousands of operatives. The industrial 
progress of the city has been rapid, and its social development has kept 
pace. Important conventions are held in Jamestown and it has gained 
a reputation as a hearty host in caring for thousands of visitors at a 
time. 



libraries in the 2<^m<is\own public Scl^ools. 



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The High School library occupies a prominent place in the scheme 

of instruction followed in the higher departments of the Jamestown 

schools, and constant efforts are making to increase its influence. The 

library is in a wing of the grammar school which is connected with the 

High School building and easily accessible 

to the 1 .200 pupils of the two schools. The 

reading room is well supplied with current 

periodicals and is open before the morning 

session and for an hour during the noon 

intermission. 

The library contains nearly 3,600 vol- 
umes exclusive of many volumes of maga- 
zines yet unbound. A skilled librarian is 
present throughout the day and is at the 
command of teachers and pupils either 
in the selection of books or in the investi- 
gation of any special topic. The librarian also renders 
much service in making collections of pictures to illustrate biographi- 
cal and historical subjects and in preparing lists for birthdays and anni- 
versaries of important events. The extent to which the library is used 
by the students is well shown by the report of the librarian for April. 
During that month the library was visited by 1,644 readers, by 1.730 
students of special topics, and 1,913 books were drawn for individual use. 
The salary of the librarian and the incidental expenses, including 
the purchase of periodicals and the rebinding of books, are paid by the 
board of education. Books are purchased from funds, one-half of which 
is furnished by the board and one-half by the Regents of the Univer- 
sity of the State of New York. The regents duplicate any appropriation 
made by the local authorities for this purpose. 

To bring the pupils of the grammar school into more immediate 
contact with good books, the teachers are allowed the freest possible use 
of the High School library, and in addition a collection of books has been 
purchased for each school room. It is expected that the number of 



books in these room libraries will be increased until it will be possible 
to require each pupil to read a certain number of books to be selected 
from these libraries. 

Each of the eleven district or ward schools in the city has been sup- 
plied with a library of books suitable for the use of young children. 
These libraries are very popular and may be said to have done more to 
form the literary taste of the children than any other single influence. 

A large amount of supplementary reading is furnished throughout 
the schools. The list comprises science, history, geographical readers 
and books of general literature adapted to the understanding of the dif- 
ferent grades of pupils. Throughout all departments of the schools 
great care is taken to interest the pupils in good literature. In this im- 
portant work the schools receive the constant and efficient co-operation 
of the librarian or the Prendergast Library. 

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President — Herbert Putnam, Public Library, Boston, Mass. 

Secretary — Melvil Dewey, New York State Library, Albany, N.Y. 

Treasurer — Gardner M. Jones, Public Library, Salem, Mass. 



'£aUc ibautauqua donference. 

Indications multiply that this year's meeting is to be unusually large 
and interesting. The program will be limited to the two great features, 
Librarianship and Home Education. Instead of long papers or addresses, 
there will be many short, crisp speeches from the ablest men and women 
in the country, who will condense into a few words their messages of 
helpfulness to their colleagues. 

Program — The official program which is in preparation by Secretary 
Dewey, will be mailed by him to members. 

■^iocal donimittccs. 

Executive Board: Trustees and Librarian of The Prendergast Library — 
Solomon Jones. President. William H. Proudfit. 

Eleazer Green, Secretary, Frank E. Gifford. 

Daniel H. Post, Treasurer. Robert N. Marvin. 

Lucius B. Warner. M. Emogene Hazeltine, Librarian. 

Sub-committee Executive Board: 

Robert N. Marvin. Chairman. 

Eleazer Green. M. Emogene Hazeltine. 

Finance Committee: 

Hon. Henry H. Cooper, Mayor of Jamestown, Chairman. 
Entertainment Committee : 

William S. Gifford. Chairman. 
Reception Committee : 

Frank W. Stevens. Chairman. 
Hotel Committee : 

M. R. Stevenson, Chairman. 
Ladies' Committee : Entertainment and Reception — 

Mrs. Wm. H. Proudfit. Chairman. 

Mrs. Frank E. Gifford. Mrs. Daniel H. Post, 

Mrs. Robert N. Marvin, Advisory Board. 

Printing Committee : 

William S. Bailey. Chairman. 
Lakewood Committee : 

Rev. R. E. Brown, Chairman. 
Chairman of Local Committees, representing the A. L. A.. Mary Emogene Hazel- 
tine. Librarian Prendergast Library, to whom all correspondence should be 

addressed. The headquarters of the local committees are at Jamestown. 



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The entertainment to be extended by the Local Committee to the 
members of the Association is a matter which the citizens of Jamestown 
have taken great pleasure in arranging, but it will in all cases be offered 
as secondary to the more important business and program of the Asso- 
ciation. 

Monday evening. July 4. there will be an informal reception at the 
Waldmere, Lakewood. to be followed by a display of fireworks over the 
waters of the lake. The day of Monday will be left open for greetings 
and individual visits to points of interest. 

Tuesday evening, July 5, a boat ride will be given over the lower 
portion of the lake, visiting Celoron for a theater party at the famous 
garden theater. Illuminations will be a feature of this evening. 

Wednesday evening. July 6. at 7 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. William 
H. Proudfit will entertain the Association at a garden party on their 
spacious grounds at Shadyside. adjoining Lakewood. This will be the 
principal social feature of conference week. 

Thursday, July 7, will be Library Day at the Chautauqua Assembly. 
On this day the sessions of the conference will be held on the Assembly 
Grounds. 

Late Friday afternoon a trolley ride will be given over the city and 
suburban lines of the Jamestown street railway system. During the ride 
a stop will be made at the James Prendergast Free Library for the pur- 
pose of inspection and a visit to its art gallery. The Association is also 
in receipt of an invitation to visit the extensive works of the Fenton 
Metallic Manufacturing Co.. which are on the railway line. 

Many informal entertain- 
ments will be planned by 
t h e librarians themselves 
during the Post Conference 
Rest, in which the Local 
Committee will take pleas- 
ure in co-operating if it is 
desired. An excursion to 
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The 20th Annual Conference of the American Library Association 
will be held at Lakewood, New York, on Chautauqua Lake. The head- 
quarters will be in the Hotel Waldmere. The sessions of the conference 
will be held in the hotel assembly hall. The officers and committees 
Will have offices near the hall. 

Mail — Mail for visiting librarians should be addressed 



Lakewood, New York. 
Care American Library Association. 

Telegraph — Both the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Com- 
panies have offices in the hotels. The latter are also connected with 
the long distance telephone system. 

Lakewood — Lakewood is five miles from Jamestown, a city of 
25,000, with which it has convenient trolley, railway and steamboat con- 
nections. Jamestown is the base of supplies for the lake resorts. 

Steam ferries ply many times hourly between Lakewood. the re- 
sorts on the opposite side of the lake, and Celoron. two miles below. 

Steamers — The large steamers of the Red Stack line make 24 runs 
daily up and down the lake (20 miles), stopping at Lakewood on each 
run. The round trip occupies four hours. Steamboat tickets in coupon 
books will be sold by the Steamboat Company, 10 tickets for $1.50 or 
20 for $2.50. Each coupon is good between any two points on the lake. 

Liveries — Satisfactory livery stables are maintained at Lakewood 
where carriages, 'bus. trap or four-in-hand can be hired at moderate 
charges. 

A fine boat livery is also conducted, with a large fleet of St. Law- 
rence skiffs for rent. Sailing craft and steam yachts of various sizes 
are also attached to this livery and can be secured for individual use or 
for a party, with an experienced sailor or crew in charge. 

The conference occurs during the open season for catching mus- 
callonge and bass, and fisherman will find the boat liveries equipped 
with all necessary tackle and live bait. 



Cycling — During the summer the lake roads offer delightful bicycle 
rides, especially to wheelmen and wheelwomen who are experienced in 
road riding. By crossing the lake on a ferry, access can be had to a 
cycle path of five miles to Jamestown. Information in full can be ob- 
tained of the bureau at the Waldmcre regarding cycling routes, and the 
local consul of the League of American Wheelmen will supply guides for 
cycling parties. A bicycle livery will be conducted at Lakewood by a 
reputable Jamestown dealer. First class wheels in good condition 
will be for rental at the headquarters, the rates being 25 cents an hour, 
$1.50 a day, $4 for the week. 

Golf — Golf players will doubtless be interested in learning that links 
are laid out at Lakewood, where they can enjoy the popular game to 
their hearts' content. 

Celoron — This place of everlasting amusement is reached by steam 
ferry. The park, v/ith its zoo, band concerts, etc., is free. Admission 
to the fine summer theater is ten cents, and that to various other attrac- 
tions is five or ten cents. 

Niagara Falls — Lakewood is distant from Buffalo 70 miles. The 
visit to Niagara Falls and return can be made in one day, giving six 
hours at the Falls. Several excursions are given every week during the 
summer, the fare varying from $1 to $1 .50 for the round trip. 

Chautauqua — The management of Chautauqua offers the librarians 
free admission to the Assembly Grounds from July 4 to 11 . On Library 
Day librarians will be transported to Chautauqua and return without 
charge. 

Opportunities will be given those who desire to visit the Prender- 
gast Library and the library of the Jamestown High School during the 
conference. 

The Young Men's Christian Association of Jamestown invites visit- 
ors to its rooms opposite the Sherman House at all times. The Asso- 
ciation maintains a library of nearly 2.000 volumes, and a reading room 
with 100 newspapers and periodicals. Correspondence facilities are at 
the disposal of visitors. 

Infor, nation — A Bureau of Information will be maintained by the 
Local Committee at the conference headquarters, where replies will be 
gladly given to all questions not answered in this book. 



Special €.xl7ibits. 



One of the most interesting and lielpful features of the association 
week at Lakewood will be the large exhibition that various publishers 
and dealers in library supplies have arranged for the week of the meet- 
ings. This exhibition will include special editions and collections of 
books intended for library use, books of reference, samples showing the 
process by which book and magazine illustrations are made, original 
drawings, collections of photographs, posters and cover designs, as well 
as all appliances for use in library buildings, including stacks, shelves, 
trays, etc. A number of libraries will also be represented in the exhibi- 
tion. The value of such an exhibition and the interest which every 
librarian will take in it are sure to make it one of the chief centers of 
attraction at the conference, as a glance through the following outline 
will reveal. Exhibits have been promised from the following houses, 
and others are negotiating for space, as the Year Book goes to press. 

The exhibit of the Library Bureau, Boston, will include a section 
of the Library Bureau stack, library tables, periodical racks, newspaper 
racks, and all of their publications and technical supplies, practically the 
same material that they would put into one of their small branch offices 
for an exhibit. An attendant will be in charge to explain all the ma- 
terial, thus making it thoroughly effective and educational. 

The Boston Bookbinding Company will exhibit its various styles of 
bindings which are so extensively used by librarians, and also several 
binding devices for temporary use on magazines, etc. Mr. R L. Ten- 
ney. superintendent rebinding department, will be in waiting to answer 
questions concerning leathers, cloths, jewing, and various styles and 
methods of English and American binders. 

Dodd,Mead&Co.,of New York, will send a number of special books, 
among which will be found American Book Prices Current. Literary 
Anecdotes of the 19th Century, American Book Clubs, GrowoU: Con- 
fessions of a Collector, Hazlett; Bookman Literary Year Book. Hilde- 
burn's Printers and Printing in New York, DeVinne's Invention of 
Printing, Ford"s New England Primer. 

Charles Scribner's Sons, the Doubleday & McClure Company. 
Harper Brothers and F. A. Stokes & Co., of New York, will make ex- 
tensive exhibits. 



Houghton, Mifflin & Co., The Lothrop Publishing Company and 
The Boston Book Company, of Boston, will make extensive and char- 
acteristic displays. 

H. M. Plimpton & Co.. of Boston, will send an exhibit of book- 
binding and material, as will also F. C. Schottin, of Buffalo, The Re- 
form Self Binder will be exhibited by Wm. Feldmann, of Chicago. 

George P. Humphrey, of Rochester, publisher of Colonial Tracts, 
will place the complete file of the Tracts on exhibition, and will him- 
self be in attendance to give information concerning them. 

The Helman-Taylor Company, of Cleveland, will have on view a 
representative exhibit of photographs, now so extensively used in library 
work. The Cumulative Index, of which this firm is now the publisher, 
will form a part of this exhibit, 

A number of libraries are to make special exhibits of their working 
supplies and appliances, catalogues, music, pictures, and the like. 
Among the libraries that will be represented are the Osterhout Free 
Library, Wilkes Barre; Cleveland Public Library: Free Library, Phila- 
delphia; Pratt Institute Library; Aquilar Free Library, and St. Louis 
Public Library. 

Through the courtesy of Messrs. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, 
the manufacturers of the Remington Standard Typewriter, there 



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operator, at headquarters. The services of the 

will be at the disposal of the members of 

elation, free of expense. There will be 

sentative present who will demonstrate 

interested, the practicability of the 

ington typewriter for library card work, 

ing and cataloguing. 



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The age of iron is passing; the age of steel has come. The manu- 
facturers of the United States have a world-wide reputation for the ex- 
cellence of their products in cast iron, but these are rapidly being dis- 
placed by the better construction in wrought steel. Both materials were 
formerly worked by hand — cast work is still so produced — but wrought 
work is now formed from the wrought sheet steel or rod, by machine 
processes which supersede hand labor, with the result of absolute uni- 
formity, and economy of labor. 

This comparatively new material, and these processes, having been 
utilized successfully in oiher lines, such as the manufacture of the bi- 
cycle, the American watch, the modern fire arm, are now availed of 
for use in the construction of library equipments and cabinet work in 
many forms. 

The works of the Fenton Metallic Mfg. Co., located in Jamestown, 
will be of interest to the members of the Library Association, as they 
will there have an opportunity of inspecting the methods employed in 
the construction of the Fenton stack, which has been adopted in many 
of the largest and best equipped libraries. It is said of the Chicago 
Library with its seventeen miles of steel shelving that "this is the most 
complete and perfect store house of learning, indicating a great advance 
in library construction as compared with any former buildings in this 
line." It is interesting to note regarding the Chicago Library that in 
the year 1896 the circulation of books exceeded all other libraries of the 
world, that of Boston, and also Birmingham, England, showing a cir- 
culation of over 800,000; Manchester, England, 975.000; while the 
Chicago Library circulation exceeded a million volumes. 

From this same factory there will be delivered during the month of 
July, a very artistic consignment of book stacks for the Public Library 
of Erie, Penna. This library is of interest, from the fact that it is the 
first one established under the comparatively new Pennsylvania law 
which provides for the building, equipping and maintaining of libraries 
by special taxation. Citizens of Erie were prominent in the original 
framing of this law and have taken the initial step in its practical appli- 
cation. Libraries so provided for are under the immediate direction and 
control of the local Board of Education. 



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